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childbirth

[chahyld-burth] / ˈtʃaɪldˌbɜrθ /


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Her father, a military commander, is killed by the British Army during the French Revolutionary Wars of the late 18th century, and her mother dies during childbirth.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

Among low-income pregnant individuals, the approach was linked to better postpartum health care and stronger connections to primary care that continued well beyond childbirth.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026

Earlier this year, Kawata, who is mayor of Yawata City in Kyoto prefecture, was plunged into a national debate about whether elected officials should take time off for childbirth.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

Sarah Anderson’s “darkly comic debut,” Joanne Kaufman writes, offers “matter-of-fact hilarity” as it peers into a future in which childbirth is one more workplace benefit.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

It’s also released during childbirth and helps bond mother to child.

From "The Sun Is Also a Star" by Nicola Yoon

This wouldn’t affect childbirths if the propensity to get married had remained constant.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 2, 2025

The only example I could think of was Sarah Hall’s gorgeous “The Wolf Border,” in which the main character, who works to reintroduce wolves to nature, has the least natural of all childbirths.

From New York Times ● Oct. 27, 2018

Three childbirths later, she was diagnosed with near-fatal renal complications.

From Washington Times ● Feb. 6, 2018

Indeed, not every baby has a mother: before modern medicine, about one in 100 childbirths killed the mother.

From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2017

Ten years after discharge the husband, in answer to an inquiry, stated that she had been perfectly well and had had no trouble at three successive childbirths.

From Benign Stupors A Study of a New Manic-Depressive Reaction Type by John T. (John Thompson) MacCurdy


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